While you can play with the instance David is already running, having your own, where you can tweak it to your hearts content is key. The good news is that this article walks you through all the steps to deploy the solution to your own Azure instance.

After opening the solution, you will be able to launch it directly from Visual Studio inside the Azure Emulator. You will be so able to debug and fine tune your code before sending it to the production stage.

Once you’re ready, you can deploy your package on your Azure account using the following procedure:

Open the “AzureRaytracer.sln”solution inside Visual Studio

Configure your Azure account: to do so, right click on the “AzureRaytracer” project and choose “Publish” menu. You will get the following screen:

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Once he gets you online, he then describes the schema of the XML file he's using to define the scene that the code we draw.